Isaiah 59:12

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10 ^aWe grope for the wall like the blind,
And we grope as if we had no eyes;
We stumble at noonday as at twilight;
We are as dead men in desolate places.

11 We all growl like bears,
And ^amoan sadly like doves;
We look for justice, but there is none;
For salvation, but it is far from us.

12 For our ^atransgressions are multiplied before You,
And our sins testify against us;
For our transgressions are with us,
And as for our iniquities, we know them:

13 In transgressing and lying against the Lord,
And departing from our God,
Speaking oppression and revolt,
Conceiving and uttering ^afrom the heart words of falsehood.

14 Justice is turned back,
And righteousness stands afar off;
For truth is fallen in the street,
And equity cannot enter.

15 So truth fails,
And he who departs from evil makes himself a ^aprey.
Then the Lord saw it, and¹ it displeased Him
That there was no justice.

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Isaiah 59:12

Our sins testify against us - Hebrew, ' Answer against us.' The idea is, that their past lives had been so depraved that they became witnesses against them (compare the notes at Isaiah 3:9).

We know them - We recognize them as our sins, and we cannot conceal from ourselves the fact that we are transgressors.

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